Ch'ü-fu

A form of Qufu — A county-level city of Jining, Shandong, China.

OriginMandarin 曲阜 →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Qufu.

    It is recorded that the Duke of Chou sent his eldest son, Po Ch'in, to take charge of a large fiefdom in the east in what is now the prefecture of Ch'ü-fu in Shantung.

    1973, D. Howard Smith, Confucius, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 33
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    There is a portrait of Confucius at Chʻü-fu attributed to Wu and another striking picture representing the struggle of a tortoise with a serpent, kuei she tʻu, which is in the Prefect's official residence at Chʻêng-tu, Sze-chʻuan.

    1919, John C. Ferguson, Outlines of Chinese Art, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, →OCLC, page 116

    He is bury'd in a stately Sepulcher in the same Town where he was born.¹ [...] ¹ The temple-tomb at Chʻü-fu in Shantung ; it is about a mile from the modern city ; this 'stately Sepulcher' was at that time in a delapidated state of repair.

    1962, J. S. Cummins, The Travels and Controversies of Friar Domingo Navarrete, 1618-1686, volume II, Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 209

    Soon after the old man's death, the mother of Confucius took him to live closer to the state capital, Ch'ü-fu- a town which still flourishes as a modern city in southwestern Shantung.

    1971, Betty Kelen, Confucius: In Life and Legend, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21

    Next in the traditionally accepted sequence of Shang capitals is Yen, tentatively identified with a site out in Shandong amid the Tung Yi, near what would eventually become Ch'ü-fu in the state of Lu.

    2011, Ralph D. Sawyer, Ancient Chinese Warfare, Basic Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 143

Origin

  1. Mandarin曲阜
  2. EnglishCh'ü-fu

From Mandarin 曲阜 (Qūfù), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻü¹-fu⁴.

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